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Preston Crayford was born in Wellington to film maker Gaylene Preston and musician Jonathan Crayford.
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Apart from appearing in a water safety commercial at the age of four, her acting debut was at the age of 13 in the New Zealand-made television series A Twist in the Tale starring William Shatner. Several years later, her performance in a stage production was praised by Ian McKellen, encouraging her to pursue an acting career and enrol in the Toi Whakaari national drama school from 2006 to 2008. Preston Crayford played a guest role in the soap opera Shortland Street in 2003, and made her feature film debut in the comedy Eagle vs Shark in 2007.
In 2009, she played a major role in the television series The Cult.
Since then she has appeared in an American Broadcasting Company television adaptation of The Mystery of a Hansom Cab, in Hope and Wire (a mini-series produced by her mother about the 2010 Canterbury earthquake), and as government communications advisor Sophie Walsh in the Australian techno-thriller The Code.
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